AIX - Printers

Commands

Start printer smitty menu:

smitty spooler

List printer services:

lssrc -g spooler

Spool directories

The following directories may need to be accessed to clean up aborted jobs:

• /var/spool/lpd/qdir: Accepts requests for print jobs
• /var/spool/lpd/stat: Status files for a print job. The backend communicates with the qdaemon through these files.
• /var/spool/lpd/spool: qdaemon requests are spooled here

The following directories are used to store virtual printer attributes:

• /var/spool/lpd/pio/burst: Stores header/trailer format page
• /var/spool/lpd/pio/predef: Default attributes
• /var/spool/lpd/pio/custom: ASCII virtual printer attributes
• /var/spool/lpd/pio/ddi: Digested virtual printer attributes